Rachel Challans
Supportive counsellor for relationship and trauma work
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About Rachel
Rachel Challans trained as a counsellor and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related difficulties. Rachel aims to help clients feel more able to make changes that matter to them.
She approaches sessions with respect for each person's story and strengths. Rachel uses a client-centred stance that keeps the person's goals at the heart of the work.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at how close relationships affect patterns of feeling and coping. Her practice pays attention to how the body holds experience, using somatic techniques where helpful to reconnect sensations and emotions. Trauma-focused methods are used when people need a clear way to address past harms and reduce their ongoing impact.
Session work is collaborative and paced to what feels doable for the individual. Rachel often supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, addictions and self-esteem difficulties. She also helps with parenting stress, body image, communication problems and challenges around neurodiversity and attachment issues.
The range of concerns includes both long-standing patterns and recent life changes. She works in English and offers services to clients in the UK and internationally. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match clients and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Rachel aims to provide steady support while people make practical steps toward feeling better.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 3
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 395288
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Somatic Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Rachel's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Rachel works with
Everything Rachel lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rachel lists
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How Rachel works online
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to examine how early and close relationships shape present patterns. That lens can help people understand recurring difficulties in trust, communication and intimacy, and support changes in how they relate to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachel will discuss goals and preferences, try different ways of working and agree what feels most useful. Clients and the therapist decide together how to proceed and adjust the plan as needed.
The biography does not specify which online formats Rachel offers, so please confirm session options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also permits different ways of working, such as focusing on breath and body awareness exercises that suit remote sessions.
Questions and answers
What kinds of problems can Rachel help with?
She works with stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and body image issues, parenting stress and mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Rachel uses a client-centred approach that keeps the person's goals central, alongside attachment-based thinking and somatic methods when helpful.
What is her professional background?
She has three years of professional experience working in the UK supporting people with relationship, family and trauma-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
Rachel is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and client regions does she support?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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